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Show -" &-J0' i 1 sfsx?J a 1 Explosion cf nn AmericAn kite balloon inflated with hydrogen gas which whs ignited by static caused by a soldier's hair brushing against the silk bag. 2 Doughboys just off a transport getting their first American pie in 18 mouths. 3 The queen of Eoumanla, who plans a trip to the United States, and her youngest daughter. NEWS REVIEW OF ". CURRENT EVENTS Peace Delegates Completing the League of Nations Plan and Treaty Together. OPPOSING SENATORS FIRM i Japan Modifies Her Race Equality Amendment Bolsheviki Lose in North and Win in Ukraine Stirring Up More Trouble in Other Lands. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Seemingly convinced that, by some means not yet revealed, the opposition of a large part of the American senate can be overcome, the peace delegates in Paris went ahead Inst week with the work of welding the treaty and the league of nations plan. President Wilson" declared there was no intention inten-tion of handling the two matters separately, sep-arately, and in this he was supported by others of the leaders. It was admitted admit-ted that the league plan would -have to be amended in various particulars, and that the American delegates had made up their minds to accept a certain cer-tain limited number of changes. Perhaps Per-haps it was believed these alterations,-which alterations,-which probably will not be at all radical, radi-cal, would satisfy the objecting senators. sena-tors. Their attitude and language do not tend to justify that belief. Some of the correspondents In Paris fear that insistence on joining the covenant of the league with the peace treaty will delay the latter. Others, equally well informed, assert that the difficulties will be speedily removed, intimating that the principles of the league, In so far as they have been generally accepted, till be incorporated incorporat-ed in the treaty and ihat differences of opinion regarding specific parts of the covenant will be recognized and discussion of them left to a later date. Thus, they think. President Wilson and the supporters of his plan will be satisfied and the -opposition in America Ameri-ca and elsewhere placated. ment to all aliens within (heir borders who are nationals of states that are members of the league. The Japanese do not accept the view that treatment of foreigners and discriminating immigration immi-gration laws are purely matters of domestic do-mestic policy and undoubtedly will at some time In the future reopen the question: On Thursday all the neutral nntions that desired to present views concerning concern-ing the league of nations were heard by the subcommlssion of the commission commis-sion on the league, of which Lord Robert Rob-ert Cecil is chairman. Most of "the neutrals, it is understood, favored the league plan with some modifications. The full commission, with Jlr. Wilson in the chair, met Saturday to consider all proposed amendments and put the plan into definite and final form. The completed peace treaty, it is asserted in Paris, Will be ready by April 1 for presentation to the German Ger-man plenipotentiaries. At the time of writing it wa-s not clear whether this pact would be a preliminary treaty or the final instrument, or a renewal of the strongest provisional armistice. In any case, many important matters were yet to be settled. These included numerous boundary disputes, in the discussion of which Mr. Wilson wns taking a leading part. According to report, he told Premier Clemenceau he would not support France's demands concerning the disposition of the west bank of the Rhine, and. the "Tiger" thereupon tried to resign, but was dissuaded dis-suaded by Premier Poincare, who showed him France could not get along without the support of America, no matter what modifications Mr. WllsoTl might demand In the French program for the treatment of Germany. Next, President Wilson conferred with Prime Minister Orlando of Italy, and, it was believed, arranged for a compromise by which Itnly will get Flume and surrender sur-render her claim to the Dalmatian coast which the Jugo-Slavs demand. This plan Is opposed by Foreign Minister Min-ister Sonnino nnd his party und by much of the population of Dalmatla. The western boundary of Poland has not been definitely determined, though the decision hnd been reached that the Poles should have a corridor to the sea, Including Danzig. The interallied commission on Poland and the Germans had n great deal of trouble last week arranging for a cessation of hostilities between the Poles and the Germans, but it was said the desired result would soon be reached. The supreme council also took steps to stop the fighting between the Poles and the Ukrainians in Gall-cia. the hope of relieving the food shortage In Moscow and the north. According to reports from Lithuania a new and strong anti-bolshevik movement move-ment is under1 way in the parts of Russia Rus-sia controlled by the soviet government. govern-ment. It is led by the "Independent communistic" party, and Its first efforts ef-forts are directed toward breaking up the bolshevik army, by desertion if necessary. Unpleasant stories are coming from Vladivostok to the effect that the anti-bolshevik anti-bolshevik Russians there are bitterly attacking the middle-of-the-road policy that is being followed by the American expedition, and are accusing the Yankees of being the friends of the bolsheviki. The antagonism Is fostered fos-tered by several newspapers which are said to have been subsidized by some Japanese agencies. The Americans in Siberia are scheduled for return in the spring. Just why the Yankee troops should fight the bolsheviki In north Russia and not in Siberia is not discernible dis-cernible at this distance. Directly connected with the strained relations in Siberia is the row In Tien Tsin, where Japanese troops and police made what is declared to have. been an unprovoked attnek on American officials and soldiers. Washington may demand an apology and reparation repara-tion from Tokyo. Meanwhile, true to their program of freeing the proletariat of the entire world, the Lenlne-Trotzky crowd are Increasingly active in lands far apart. In China tr ey are said to be organizing organiz-ing a great movement and spending Immense sums of money, of which they seem to have unlimited supplies. Another uprising In India is being planned. In western Canada their Influence In-fluence Is apparent In the action taken by the labor unions. Nearly all local unions there have voted to secede from the American Federation of Labor La-bor and to follow the I. W. W. plan of organizing by industries Instead of by crafts. Their new body is to be known as the One Big Union. The delegates to the meeting that took this action adopted a resolution committing commit-ting them to the bolshevik plan of a "dictatorship of the proletariat," and also voted for a referendum to call a general strike on June 1 for a 30-hour five-day week. What Mr. Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, will sny of this remains to be seen. At present he Is in Farls, where the commission com-mission on International labor legislation legisla-tion has been in session. The British draft convention for a permanent organization or-ganization was amended and adopted for submission to the peace conference. confer-ence. The American contention that each country should settle Its Intermit labor problems without Invoking the power of the league of nations prevailed. pre-vailed. The commission heard a delegation dele-gation of women from the allied countries coun-tries nnd promised to give due consideration consid-eration to the points presented, these Including eight claims in behalf of working women and children. The specific changes demanded by the opposing senators have not been made public except In a scattering wny; but a courier Is on his way to Paris bearing a leng.'hj statement for the French and British press prepared by Senator Polndexter. The senators Intend to escape any possible cable censorship by sending all their communications com-munications by courier. Meanwhile they are d. .ending their stand before the American public In speeches and debates, the most interesting of the latter being between Senator Lodge and President Lowell of Harvard university. uni-versity. Lodge said he favored -a league of nations, but not the cove-Imnt cove-Imnt as presented. He declared the whole treaty should be redrafted, but did not believe that would be done in Paris. Senator Reed violently attacked at-tacked the league plan 111 n speech before be-fore the Missouri legislature, whereupon where-upon fifty Democratic members of that body formally demanded his resignation. resigna-tion. That Is a fair sample of the Intolerance In-tolerance displayed by the strongest partisans of both sides In the dispute. Several rather startling suggestions have been made by the senators who are fighting the Wilson plan. Lenroot of Wisconsin proposes that the sedate adopt a resolution declaring (he war Willi Germany terminated anil Ihen proceed to formulate a peace treaty, (.'alder of New York wishes congress, as soon as It Is convened, to Instruct the American delegates how they should proceed. Japan's delegate having evinced a determination de-termination to try to Introduce Into Ihe league covenant an article' giving tin- yellow races equal rights of Inmii-LTiilion Inmii-LTiilion with I he (' Mcaslans, President Wilson personally undertook to stave off this threatened complication. He told Vlsi-omit Malsnl the Idea was Impossible, Im-possible, and Malsnl agreed to drop It for the pri-Miil. However, the Japanese Jap-anese diiegallon did propose an a nn admen I providiii;; I h 1 1 I lie roii- ' ed I f ' V'' The German government was reported report-ed to be facing a new political crisis, with the prospect that Scheldwmann would be forced to relinquish the chancellorship. The split between the majority socialists and the Independent Independ-ent socialists was becoming wider. When the independents demanded the repeal of martial law in Berlin Wolfgang Wolf-gang Heine, Prussijin minister of justice, jus-tice, bitterly assailed them for their co-operation with the Spartacans. Tlie Spartacans, who were comparatively compara-tively quiet for a few day.? after their virtual defeat In Berlin, were begin-hlng begin-hlng agitation for a new general strike on March declaring that this time their success was Certain. Their previous operations along the Rhine, according to Berlin dispatches, led tho French troops of occupation to seize Mannheim, Karlsruhe and two other cities. This was neither allirn'ied nor denied 'by the allies. Defeat In the north and west, and success In the .south met the bolsheviki in Itussia. They attacked the allied positions south of Archangel, but were repulsed with considerable losses. The Lettish troops also whipped them, taking lh(! Important lown of Milan, southwest of Riga, and compelling them to retreat along the whole front in that region; and the Poles forced liieni out of linsk. On Ihe other hand, the bol.-ihevlkl, having forced the Freinii garrison of Nlltolnlev lo retire to Odessa after fierce lighting, were In possession of virtually the whole of the HUniine. Further east they reached the Isthmus of i'erekop, which connects Hie Crimen with the mainland. main-land. Their aim evidently Is to suli-lo'ie suli-lo'ie liel'oi-c spring alt opposition In Ihe t ..rain rvgiim of the Ukraine, In The Korean Independence movement, In reality a peaceful revolt, Is attracting attract-ing much attention and giving Japan considerable concern. The Japanese have arrested a good many Koreans, nnd with them some American missionary mis-sionary women, according to press dlspalclie-,- Ko official stories of these occurrences having been received In Washington, the slate department cabled tlie American ambassador In Tokyo to Investlgale ihe reports. The Japanese, It. is said, charge the Americans Ameri-cans with teaching the Koreans (he doctrines of liberty and personal, rights. Of great scientific Inlerest was the announcement last Wednesday that wireless telephony had been established estab-lished between Ireland and Canada, and between New Jersey and Brest, France. Ant limit les agreed that for the present, at least, this means of conimunlcul ion will be one of tlie luxuries lux-uries and Hint It will not supplanl wireless telegraphy across Hie ocean. Director General Ulnes has pulled Ihe railroads out of the financial hole for Hie I line being by borrowing .fr.O,-OliO, .fr.O,-OliO, (MM) from the war finance corporation, corpora-tion, which lakes the -stand that the railways are essential war Industries. Other loans will follow as rapidly as they can he arranged. |